I've always been able to make a really low voice, like I'll just sound like any cis-guy almost. And I've asked others, and none of my female friends are able to, so this isn't quite normal I guess..?
Do any of you have this?
And I was wondering if this maybe means that when I start T I will get an extremely low voice?
Or maybe it will just drop into that lol... Idk, time will show.
There's really no telling how low your voice will get once you starting injecting testosterone, even if you had a low voice to begin with. Testosterone might not change it too quickly or even too much but it will change in the sense that it sounds male, it won't necessarily change to having a voice like James Earl Jones. You're lucky to have such a voice because while I sound somewhat male, I sound like a boy, not a man.
I've been wondering the same thing. My voice is incredibly low naturally. I've only been on T for 2.5 weeks and I'm wondering if I'm gonna have a crazy baritone like my dad.
I had a very low voice before starting testosterone, to the point that I had to pitch it higher on the phone or people wouldn't believe I was a girl. I don't know if my voice is particularly low or high compared to other men. Now I want to start asking people, though. :laugh:
There was one person who knew me as female, then met me when I was about a year on hormones. She claimed not to notice the difference in my voice at the time. Then a year or two later she called on the phone, and she thought she had the wrong number when she heard me talk. I don't know if that is due to my voice further deepening in that time or if it has more to do with her foibles.
Agree with Bandors, you don't ever know what exactly your body will do with hormones.
It's like everyone says, very difficult to predict. My partner one day had to call my younger brother (he's 22, I'm 26) and ask him something for me, and then call me back and tell me what he'd said (I was in the middle of getting a tattoo, so I could only talk for a bit) and my partner said he had to check the phone to make sure he hadn't accidentally called my brother back. I'm three months and like, two weeks on T, and this was three weeks ago. It's only gotten deeper since then.
You can't predict. I would have had no idea I'd be a baritone. I was pretty sure it would be tenor, but i did have a low voice pre-T.
--Jay
Out of curiosity, would you mind uploading a recording on say, Vocaroo?
But no, you can't predict. I have a very odd resonance for a female but otherwise quite light voice. In just 4 months I dropped from sounding definitely female to something that is more likely to be read as male overall than female, though occasionally female. This becomes noticeable at my job as I work as a telephone interviewer and I have been called anything between "woman" and "old fart" lmao. I also once had someone comment on that my voice sounded very attractive but this was a couple of weeks ago so my voice has likely changed since then. The progression is very linear though I had a very weird immediate drop somewhere between April-May.
For those curious, the range where male and female voices meet tends to be around 160 hz so if you could come across as male, you were likely around this range.